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Although I Tatti has begun functioning as an Italian study center this year, its work has been limited by a fund drive which is reportedly "not doing well." Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higgins professor of English Literature and director of the Italian Villa, has already returned to the United states Once, speaking Oct. 30 at a fund-raising dinner in New York...
...University's latest foreign acquisition, Bernard Berenson's Villa I Tatti, is to be used as a center where promising scholars would be given adequate freedom and tools for research...
...Tatti was long the residence and workshop of Bernard Berenson. Left to the University in Berenson's will, the villa will become a research center for scholars studying the history and culture of the Mediterranean world, particularly in the field of the Italian Renaissance, for which the I Tatti library is famous...
Murdock, who expects to assume his new duties this summer, will be in residence at I Tatti as director of the study center. A former Master of Leverett House and for five years chairman of the General Education Program, Murdock is a scholar of the history and literature of the 17th Century. Known especially for his studies of the literature of Colonial New England, he is the general editor of a forthcoming edition of Cotton Mather's Magnalla Christl Americans...
...University is seeking a $2 million fellowship fund to provide support for selected scholars to work at the Italian villa. Until the fund can be raised, a limited number of scholars who are working in the fields of art, history, and literature will be invited to join the I Tatti research group...